Hello Boppers, It’s wolf. I want to share an email I received because I believe in transparency and the internet is full of bullshit. unfortunately there isn’t any music involved in this.
To Whom it May Concern,
My name is Sean Mullen, I operate under the alias Wolf when I created the website:
http://boppernation.com where I hosted links to media files. The aforementioned song, Pon De Floor (Chewy Chocolate Cookies remix) was Gifted to me to use on my website from the artist himself, Chewy Chocolate Cookies back in 2010 or whenever the link was posted. All music I have ever posted on my website was given to me by the artist/label/manager anyone who had permission to do so, I never operated on my own releasing content that wasn’t mine. I don’t update the site at all these days, it runs on its own now and is operated by others, but it still operates under the same conditions I have mentioned. If you wish to remove the music, fine, that song was released eons ago and is linked through several people with and without permission of the artist..but do not contact me again telling me I have violated any terms of service and do not contact 3rd parties, i.e. mediafire telling them I have violated any terms of service because everything I have ever posted was with permission from the people who created and own the music. From reading your email it says you represent Death Cab for Cutie, Jennifer Lopez, Snoop Dogg, etc. these names mean nothing to me and I have never released any of their content. Thanks.
Cordially yours, Sean ‘Wolf’ mullen
here is the email I received:
The file Pon de floor – Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix.mp3 identified by the key (z2zdmnztgmm) has been deleted for a violation of our Terms of Service or our Acceptable Use Policy.
If you feel this was in error after reviewing our Terms of Service, located at http://www.mediafire.com/terms_of_service.php, and our Acceptable Use Policy, located at http://www.mediafire.com/abuse_policy.php, please contact Support.
The specific reason for the removal was:
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29 May 2011 Mediafire.com United States Email: abuse@mediafire.com Ref: R16608-R16610 Re: (links attached) Dear Sir/Madam, I am contacting you on behalf of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the record companies it represents. The IFPI is a trade association that represents over 1,400 major and independent record companies in the US and internationally who create, manufacture and distribute sound recordings (the “IFPI Represented Companies”). Under penalty of perjury, we submit that we are authorized to act on behalf of the IFPI Represented Companies in matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet. We have learned that your service is hosting the above web pages on your network. These web pages are offering direct links to files for other users to download containing sound recordings by the artists JENNIFER LOPEZ, IL VOLO, SNOOP DOGG, GUANO APES, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE. The copyright in these sound recordings is owned or exclusively controlled by certain IFPI Represented Companies. We have a good faith belief that the above-described activity is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. We assert that the information in this notification is accurate, based upon the data available to us. We are asking for your immediate assistance in stopping this unauthorized activity. Specifically, we request that you remove the infringing links from your system or that you disable access to the infringing links, and that you inform the site operator(s) of the illegality of his or her conduct. Our top priority is to prevent the continued availability of the IFPI Represented Companies’ content on the internet. Unauthorized copies of sound recordings that are freely available, especially pre-release recordings, cause substantial damage to the IFPI Represented Companies every hour and day they remain available. In sending this notice we are seeking to ensure that infringing content is removed from the internet as quickly as possible through your cooperation. However, please note that we do not admit that we or the IFPI Represented Companies are responsible for detecting infringing material and notifying you of it. Our use of a notice in this form, as required by you, is meant to facilitate your removal of the infringing material listed above and we neither admit nor accept that you are a ‘service provider’ for the purposes of the DMCA or that it is necessary to serve, or that you are entitled to be served, a notice in compliance with the DMCA. IFPI itself and on behalf of the IFPI Represented Companies expressly reserves all rights in this regard. In addition, this notice does not constitute a waiver of any right to recover damages incurred by virtue of any unauthorised activities described in this notice, and such rights as well as claims for other relief are hereby expressly reserved. You may contact me at IFPI Secretariat, 10 Piccadilly, London W1J 0DD, United Kingdom or email Notices@ifpi.org, to discuss this notice. We await your response. Yours faithfully Jeremy Banks Director, Internet Anti-Piracy IFPI 10 Piccadilly London W1J 0DD United Kingdom Email: Notices@ifpi.org
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